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Dmitry Peskov also noted that the situation was brought under control quickly due "to the assistance that was rendered through the CSTO at the request of Kazakhstan" MOSCOW, January 10./TASS/. Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov sees as effective and heroic the actions of Kazakh law enforcement amid unrest in the country. "Why was it possible to quickly de-escalate tensions and ward off this mai...

Gov. Mike Parson responds to a media question during a press conference on May 29, 2019 in Jefferson City (Photo by Jacob Moscovitch/Getty Images). Amending Missouri’s open records law to permit government agencies to withhold more information from the public — and charge more for any records that are turned over — is among Gov. Mike Parson’s priorities for the 2022 legislative session. Among...

Poland's Foreign Minister Zbigniew Rau speaks at a NATO summit in Latvia, last month. A Polish diplomat charged with improving contacts with Jews worldwide has been fired after he criticized his own government's approach to regulating Holocaust speech, the Foreign Ministry said Monday. Jaroslaw Nowak, the plenipotentiary for contacts with the Jewish diaspora described a Holocaust speech law p...

Digital Realty. Image: Krishnan Nair Top African firms Bowmans and ENSafrica have teamed up with Latham & Watkins and Weil Gotshal & Manges to advise on the $3.5 billion acquisition of African data center service provider Teraco Data Environments by New York-listed property company Digital Realty. The buyout of Teraco establishes Digital Realty as the leading data center provider in A...

A gun rights lobbyist claims a Mid – Missouri Senator is leading the effort to take the state’s Second Amendment Preservation Act off the books. The Missouri Firearms Coalition’s Aaron Dorr is going after Majority Floor Leader Caleb Rowden … The law would levee stiff fines against any Missouri law enforcement agency that enforces federal gun laws restricting private gun ownership in the state...

Here's the deal: An initial public offering ("IPO") refers to the initial offering by a company of a class of its equity securities, usually with a contemporaneous listing of that class of securities on a national securities exchange. Although there is no perfect time to effect an IPO, a company should consider the overall market conditions, investor appetite for risk, its anticipated valuat...

Greene County school districts, law enforcement agencies, and the juvenile courts are tightening how school shooting threats are reported and dealt with in the wake of a Michigan teen who shot and killed four students. Greene County juvenile courts saw a flood of incidents after the November shooting at Oxford High School in Michigan. Teenager Ethan Crumbley has since been charged with killin...

Last summer, Texas lawmakers gambled on a long-shot legal workaround. Unable — yet — to ban abortions outright, they crafted SB 8, which authorized any private individual to bring civil suit against those who facilitate abortions. To encourage such private enforcement actions, Texas prescribed large monetary bounties. The effects of SB 8’s enactment were immediate and palpable: Clinics across...

OPEN AND SHUT, RINSE AND REPEAT - Judges and court administrators across the country are, at this point, pretty well used to the pandemic mucking up plans to resume in-person operations. But that doesn’t mean they’ve settled on a uniform response to new COVID-related complications. As the reportedly less lethal but much more contagious Omicron variant rages across the U.S. and infection rates...

On December 15, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed amendments to its disclosure rules regarding an issuer's repurchases of its equity securities, often referred to as buybacks. The proposed rules would require an issuer (including a foreign private issuer) to publicly furnish via EDGAR a new Form SR before the end of the first business day following the day the issuer exec...